Τύρος

τὸ τῶν νικητόρων στρατόπεδον → Victorious Legion

French (Bailly abrégé)

ου (ἡ) :
Tyr, ville et île de Phénicie.

of Hebrew origin (צֹר): Tyrus (i.e. Tsor), a place in Palestine: Tyre.

Τύρου, ἡ (Hebrew צור or צֹר; from Aramaic טוּר, a rock), Tyre, a Phoenician city on the Mediterranean, very ancient, large, splendid, flourishing in commerce, and powerful by land and sea. In the time of Christ and the apostles it was subject to the Romans , but continued to possess considerable wealth and prosperity down to 1291> A.D. 1291. It is at present an obscure little place containing some five thousand inhabitants, part Mohammedans part Christians, with a few Jews (cf. Bädeker's Palestine, p. 425f; (Murray's, op. cit., p. 370f)). It is mentioned T omits; Tr marginal reading WH brackets καί Σιδῶνος), 31. (BB. DD.)